Priyanka Chopra stars as Alex Parrish, a bright FBI recruit who joins the agency after graduating from the FBI Academy and becomes a prime suspect of a terrorist attack on Grand Central Terminal. Quantico initially had two timelines: the present, when Parrish flees from captivity to prove her innocence, and the past, with her and her fellow recruits training at the academy and details of their individual lives are learned. The series switched to a single timeline from the middle of the second season onward.

Quantico has received positive reviews from critics, with praise for Chopra's performance and the diversity of the cast. However, the "confusing dual timelines" received some criticism, the series has been nominated for four People's Choice Awards, with Chopra winning two: Favorite Actress in a New TV Series in 2016—making her the first South Asian to win a People's Choice Award—and Favorite Dramatic TV Actress in 2017. ABC renewed the series for a third season, which is scheduled to premiere on April 26, 2018, as part of the renewal process, Safran was replaced as primary showrunner by Michael Seitzman.

Alex Parrish, a former FBI recruit, becomes a prime suspect after a terrorist attack on Grand Central Terminal and is arrested for treason; in flashbacks, she and her fellow agents (each with their own reason for joining the bureau) train at the FBI Academy. The current time-line focuses on Parrish's constrained relationship with her friends while she is on the run in an attempt to prove her innocence; in the second season, Parrish has apparently been fired by the FBI; in flashbacks, she works undercover for the FBI as a CIA recruit to uncover the AIC, a rogue faction within the agency. In the current time-line, a hostage crisis at a G-20 summit in New York City is initiated by the Citizens Liberation Front, a terrorist group. Two weeks after the crisis, President Claire Haas and CIA director Matthew Keyes form a covert CIA-FBI task force (led by Clay Haas) to expose eight conspirators who were secretly involved in the hostage crisis.

To me this series is like those high octane summer blockbuster movies we used to have in the '80s and '90s with all of the action and stuff, but there's also like this Trojan horse quality to it as well in that within all the action you get to talk about domestic terrorism, religion, politics, and belief systems. If we go to seasons two and three, that will stay the same, but what the horse is made of will change.

Series creator Joshua Safran initially wanted a "straightforward action show" different from his past work, which included the soapy dramas Gossip Girl and Smash.[16] He revealed that he wanted to do something with a law enforcement theme such as a political thriller about the NYPD after the September 11 attacks,[17] he based protagonist Alex Parrish, whose complex family history haunts her throughout the series, on a relative; Safran wove his own struggle to understand that family member into Alex's desire to learn the truth about her father.[16][17] Safran said "I have a family member who either is a pathological liar or has been involved with a government agency my whole life. I've always struggled with knowing that I would never know the truth, because there is no real such thing as the truth with regard to somebody who may or may not be telling the truth, that struggle informed the character of Alex."[17] He called the series a sexy romance and a political thriller, adding "It's like, what would Die Hard be if Die Hard was weekly and was also a soap".[16]

Saftran offered the series to ABC, on September 17, 2014, the network announced that it had bought the concept for a drama series from ABC Studios and Safran and produced by Mark Gordon, and described it as "Grey's Anatomy meets Homeland".[18] ABC ordered a pilot on January 23, 2015 for the 2015–16 television season,[19] the series was picked up from the pilot, with an initial order of 13 episodes for the 2015 network-television season.[20][21] Good ratings led ABC to pick up Quantico for a full season in October with an additional six episodes (increasing the episode count to 19), with an option of more episodes;[22] in November, the season was extended to 22 episodes.[23] In March, 2016, ABC announced that it had renewed Quantico for a second season, also consisting of 22 episodes.[24][25][26]

In May 2017, ABC renewed the series for a third season of 13 episodes, as part of the renewal process, Safran stepped down as showrunner of the show but remained as a consultant.[29][30] The following month, it was announced that Michael Seitzman would be Quantico's showrunner and Safran would be credited as an executive producer,[31] the third season is scheduled to premiere on April 26, 2018.[4]

Like other ABC shows, Quantico has a racially-diverse cast (allowing viewers to relate to at least one character) as FBI recruits who deal with their individual problems.[32] Safran had wanted the show to be diverse from the beginning, saying: "You're not just watching people who have struggled to achieve places of power and they're there, this show is about the struggle to achieve that. Their politics and their racial makeup and their religious backgrounds are very important to their characterizations and who they are. I really am interested in looking at how every culture handles stress — and in particular, how people from all these different backgrounds find their place in the FBI, an agency that has historically fraught relationships with gay people and people of color."[32][33] The first actor cast in the series was Tate Ellington, as FBI trainee Simon Asher.[10]Graham Rogers was then cast as another FBI trainee, Caleb Haas.[9] It was announced that Aunjanue Ellis had signed to play Miranda Shaw, assistant director and training supervisor of the academy.[8]Dougray Scott was then cast as Liam O'Connor, Miranda's former partner and current subordinate.[34]

Priyanka Chopra was cast as series protagonist Alex Parrish,[35] the result of a talent holding deal with ABC Studios which required the company to develop a starring project for her or cast her in an existing project for the 2015 television season.[36] ABC casting executive Keli Lee had long tried to persuade Chopra to perform on television in the United States.[37] When the actress began considering U.S. TV, Lee learned that Chopra had been approached by another studio: "I said [to Chopra], 'No, you can't make this deal elsewhere. You're coming here. And I'm flying to India'". Lee went to India and convinced Chopra to accept ABC's offer,[37] the actress said about Lee: "I told her, the only way I would do it is if you find me a show and a path which first will put me in the same position that I am in India".[38]

Chopra saw the deal as an opportunity to represent South Asia and challenge Indian stereotypes in Hollywood and the United States, saying: "When I was in school [in the U.S.], you never saw anyone who looked like us that was on TV. And that was really weird for me because there's so many people of South Asian descent in America – in the world. I didn't want to be this stereotype of what Indian people are usually seen as in global pop culture. We don't just have to be Apu from The Simpsons."[16][38] After being given all 26 pilot scripts which ABC was filming for the 2015–2016 television season, she chose Quantico,[37][5] the actress, who had appeared in over fifty films at that time, was required to audition for the first time, which she found nerve-wracking.[39] Safran was impressed by Chopra's audition, which helped him re-envision the character, adding "She walked into the room, and it was like the molecules shifted in that way that superstars have. I was very confused because I didn't know who she was, but we all sat up straighter. We're like this is clearly a movie star; it's like every hair on the back of your neck stands up watching her act. When I went back home I couldn't think about anyone else."[40][41] Chopra became the first South Asian to headline an American network drama series.[42]

After the third season renewal announcement, it was reported that Al Massri and Thusi would leave the series,[54][55] and in June 2017, it was reported that Ellis and Tovey would not return as part of a creative overhaul.[56] However, in August 2017, it was confirmed that Tovey would in fact be returning as a series regular;[57] in late July 2017, Marlee Matlin joined the show as a series regular in the third season. She will play the role of ex-FBI agent, Jocelyn Turner,[58] on November 21, 2017, it was announced that Alan Powell will join the show as a series regular in the third season. He will play Mike McQuigg, an undercover agent,[59] on December 6, 2017, it was announced that Amber Skye Noyes will join the third season in the recurring role of Celine Fox.[60] On January 17, 2018, it was announced that Vandit Bhatt will join the third season in the recurring role of Jagdeep Patel,[61] on February 16, 2018, it was confirmed that Aunjanue Ellis has exited the series.[62]

Although Safran initially intended the series to be an ensemble, with Alex the lead protagonist, this changed after Chopra was cast,[63] as the show's "face" and featuring in its publicity campaign, Alex dominated the storyline and became the main character of the series.[16][63] Although the character was initially written as Caucasian, Safran completely rewrote her character with Chopra in his mind, tweaking her background as she became half-Indian and spent ten years in Mumbai,[37] her casting also helped change Alex's personality; in one change, the "jaded and brooding" Alex became "fun and warm".[16][63][64] Safran initially focused on the character's dark side, saying that he had never imagined a positive side: "Priyanka came in and played all of that but as a character who was always in control. And still warm and vibrant because she knew no one was going to get through her walls, from that point on, Alex was the kind of character who can have humor, who can have heart".[64]

Quantico was designed with over a half-dozen core characters, in addition to Alex Parrish, for pacing reasons.[65] It was intended to have a flashback narrative, shifting between "the present day with Parrish navigating her way through a class of FBI New Agent Trainees to the near future as the truth and repercussions of the attack emerge". Safran also used flashforwards to spread out the series' plot points,[65] he said in a 2015 interview that although the series is "intricately plotted", it does not intend to overwhelm the viewer, saying: "It is tightly structured and moves quickly between two, sometimes three, time periods, but we made sure that it's not so complicated that it just feels like too much. I like to say that we have a lot of tributaries, but they all lead to one ocean",[15] the series' diverse cast has helped its writers create a variety of storylines and plot points. According to a Variety article on Safran and Quantico, "The show delves below the surface into those disparate backgrounds to explore how each character's personal stories influence their motivations for joining the FBI and in their perspective on the search for truth in the terrorism investigation. That offers a wealth of engaging material for writers to mine".[65] Safran modeled Quantico on Buffy the Vampire Slayer in structure, with self-contained story arcs from season to season,[63] its producers said that each season would have a specific storyline, with Alex the series' focal point surrounded by a new cast.[65]

Safran called the second season more cohesive, mirroring the first season and "... keep[ing] the two-storyline structure".[48] In an interview, he confirmed that the structure would be "a little bit of flash-forward, but the majority will be what I like to call the present".[66] According to Safran, the producers aimed at a more-mature, darker second season which would be "less confusing" to viewers.[67] Safran had plotted an upcoming plot point as the first season ended, which saw Alex clearing her name, getting fired by the FBI and receiving a job offer by the CIA director,[68] he revealed that the season-two storyline would focus on the contrasting work ethics of the FBI and the CIA.[68] Safran elaborated about the differences between the FBI and CIA, saying: "We're very interested in the fact that the FBI's so much about being honest, truthful and living up to your badge. And the CIA is the opposite. You succeed if you can deceive. So it's going to be interesting to see. It's like a funhouse mirror of what we've seen",[69] he announced that the series would switch to a single timeline after the fourteenth episode. Safran said that the second season always intended to adopt a single timeline after the resolved storyline and the aftermath of the hostage crisis, adding "When we broke Season 2, we knew we were going to go to one timeline, because it's about the [terrorist] event, and then it's about what happens after the event. And you can't flashback to the Farm after the crisis is over",[70] he said that the change was also due to viewer complaints that the first season's dual timeline was confusing.[70]

Quantico's pilot episode was filmed in Atlanta from March 11 to March 26, 2015,[71][72] with two days of filming in New York.[73] It was announced that the series would be filmed in downtown Montreal and Sherbrooke, which stood in for New York and Quantico,[74] the first schedule began in late July and ended in late December 2015.[75][76] Quantico Academy exteriors were filmed on the Université de Sherbrooke campus,[77] the series was shot in Mel's Cité du Cinéma studio and on location.[78] Its second shooting schedule began in January 2016 and continued in Montreal until mid-May.[79][80]

In April 2016, it was reported that Quantico's production would move to New York City for its second season; according to Safran, "Season 2 is going to be very much more a New York story".[81] Second season filming, which began in New York on July 13, 2016, was shot at Silvercup Studios and on location.[82][83] Filming ended in mid-March 2017.[84] Certain scenes of the third-season premiere will be shot on location in Italy.[85] Filming for the third season started on October 10, 2017;[86] in March 2018, it was confirmed by showrunner Michael Seitzman that the last few episodes of the third season will be shot on location in Ireland.[87]

Quantico, initially scheduled to air Tuesdays at 10:00 pm, was moved to Sundays at 10:00 pm due to a retooling of Of Kings and Prophets.[88][89] The series premiered on ABC on Sunday, September 27, 2015[90] The series debuted in Canada on CTV on the same day as its American premiere,[91] the episodes, about 43 minutes in length, are broadcast in standard and high definition. In Australia, it premiered on the Seven Network on October 11, 2015,[92] the series was acquired by Alibi in the United Kingdom.[93] The season-two premiered on September 25, 2016,[94] after the mid-season finale, it moved to Mondays at 10:00 p.m. on January 23, 2017.[95]

Standard- and high-definition episodes are available for download at the iTunes Store and Amazon Video, and ABC video on demand temporarily releases recent episodes. Season-one episodes were on Hulu, and season-two episodes are available at ABC's Quantico website and on Xfinity, the first season became available for streaming on Netflix in a number of countries on August 23, 2016,[96] and the second season became available in the U.S. on June 15, 2017.[97]

The first season of Quantico received positive reviews, with most critics praising Chopra's performance, the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports an 82% "Certified Fresh" approval rating, with an average rating of 6.9 out of 10 (based on 56 reviews). According to the website consensus, "Obvious copycatting aside, Quantico provides ludicrously entertaining thrills from a well-balanced cast."[99] The series has a score of 70 out of 100 (based on 25 reviews) on Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews",[100] the Newark Star-Ledger's Vicki Hyman called Quantico the best new show of the season and graded it an "A". Hyman wrote that the show was "taut and terrifically calibrated ... with at least one deadly effective twist you won't see coming."[101] Wiegand, David from San Francisco Chronicle also praised the series: "The plot is intricate and compelling, the characters magnetic and mysterious at the same time."[102] Robert Bianco of USA Today rated Quantico three out of four, calling its cast "an appropriately diverse group, brought to life by generally fine performances, led by Chopra's and Ellis": "There are times when Quantico feels a shade mechanical, in moments when you can practically hear the plot gears moving. But it accomplishes what the opener of a whodunit needs to do: establish a wide range of plausible suspects and spark our interest in the mystery and the hero."[103]

James Poniewozik of The New York Times called Chopra the series' "strongest human asset": "She is immediately charismatic and commanding."[104] Melissa Maerz of Entertainment Weekly called Quantico the best Shonda Rhimes drama that Rhimes never touched and wrote that "Chopra's bound to be a breakout star."[105] Rob Lowman of the Los Angeles Daily News enjoyed the show and Chopra's performance, saying: "Although a bit over-frenetic at times, the series seems to take inspiration from a man-on-the run Hitchcock thriller. Only in Quantico's case it's a woman, and they have a charismatic star in Chopra. I was immediately struck by her dynamic screen presence. So far it's one of the most-promising new shows, and Chopra is someone worth keeping an eye on."[106] Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter, in a lukewarm review, found its pilot "just good enough to make you watch another."[107] Although TheWrap's Tim Grierson wrote that the show "provides sexy fun", "For a show about highly trained, incredibly intelligent agents, Quantico often succumbs to lame-brained plotting and a less-than-convincing portrayal of its specialized milieu, this new show's fluffy, which doesn't fit so well with the darker, somber tones meant to be struck by the introduction of a cataclysmic terrorist attack."[108]

The second season also received positive reviews.[109][110] Jasef Wisener of TVOvermind gave the premiere episode a rating of three and a half star, writing that it set up its sophomore season "effectively".[111] However, Allison Nichols of TV Fanatic was critical of the opening episode owing to the "confusing time jumps" and the "head-spinning plotlines",[112] the episodes following the winter finale when the show's narrative switched to a single timeline garnered further praise by such critics as Madison Vain of the Entertainment Weekly, especially for its focus on character development.[109][113][114] Kelsey McKinney of New York magazine noted that the show had finally found its groove, writing "For the first time since its first season, Quantico actually seems to know where it is headed. It's quite a welcome development, and the newfound confidence ... makes Quantico a much more enjoyable show to watch."[114] In a five-star review of the sixteenth episode, Kelsey McKinney of New York wrote that "the show is grappling more and more with the emotions that make us all human, not just the ones that drive the story forward."[115] The series' plot lines, involving current political situations, were also praised.[116][117]

Quantico's season one premiere garnered 7.14 million viewers and a 1.9 rating among adults 18–49, the highest-rated scripted telecast on Sunday night opposite Sunday Night Football. It improved 36 percent on its lead-in, Blood & Oil, which had a 1.4 rating.[119] The pilot episode was also popular for DVR playback (over five million, a 79-percent increase, for a total 3.4 rating among adults 18–49 and total viewership of 12.15 million).[120][121] The series, which continued to do well in live viewing, more than doubled several times in DVR playback during the season,[122][123] its finale had 3.78 million viewers, with a 1.0 rating among adults 18–49 and a 120-percent DVR increase, for a 2.2 adult 18–49 rating and a total of 6.7 million viewers.[124][125] The first season averaged 8.05 million viewers, with a 2.6 rating among adults 18 to 49.[126]

The second-season premiere had 3.64 million viewers and a 1.0 rating among adults 18 to 49.[94] Its finale attracted 2.72 million viewers, with a 0.6 rating among adults 18–49.[127] The season averaged 4.53 million viewers, with a 1.3 rating among adults 18–49.[128]

Quantico continues to be popular in Australia, Canada, France and India.[31][130][131] The premiere episode had 2.6 million viewers in Canada, the largest audience for a new television series that year. It was the most-watched episode, behind The Big Bang Theory (which had 2.8 million).[91] Averaging 2.17 million viewers, Quantico was Canada's most-watched drama series, most-watched new series and second-most-watched series (after The Big Bang Theory) in 2015.[132] It was the most-watched drama series of 2015 in Australia and the second-most-watched series overall (after The Big Bang Theory);[133] in France, the series premiered to 4.9 million viewers (a 21-percent audience share) and averaged 3.1 million viewers during its first season.[134][135] According to a Business Insider report (with 2.1 million views per month), Quantico was the 12th-most-popular TV show of 2016 based on ratings, peer-to-peer sharing, social-media chatter and viewer demand.[136]

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Thriller (genre)
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Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television, having numerous subgenres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation, successful examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Thrillers generally keep the audience on the edge of their seats as the plot builds towards a climax, the cover-up of important information is a common element. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, and cliffhangers are used extensively, a thriller is usually a villain-driven plot, whereby he or she presents obstacles that the protagonist must overcome. Homers Odyssey is one of the oldest stories in the Western world and is regarded as a prototype of the thriller. Thrillers may be defined by the mood that they elicit. In short, if it thrills, it is a thriller, as the introduction to a major anthology explains, Suspense is a crucial characteristic of the thriller genre. It gives the viewer a feeling of pleasurable fascination and excitement mixed with apprehension, anticipation and tension and these develop from unpredictable, mysterious and rousing events during the narrative, which make the viewer or reader think about the outcome of certain actions. Suspense builds in order to make those final moments, no matter how short, the suspense in a story keeps the person hooked to reading or watching more until the climax is reached. In terms of expectations, it may be contrasted with curiosity. The objective is to deliver a story with sustained tension, surprise, the second type of suspense is the. anticipation wherein we either know or else are fairly certain about what is going to happen but are still aroused in anticipation of its actual occurrence. According to Greek philosopher Aristotle in his book Poetics, suspense is an important building block of literature, common methods and themes in crime and action thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings. Common in mystery thrillers are investigations and the whodunit technique, common elements in dramatic and psychological thrillers include plot twists, psychology, obsession and mind games. Common in horror thrillers are serial killers, stalking, deathtraps, elements such as fringe theories, false accusations and paranoia are common in paranoid thrillers. Threats to entire countries, spies, espionage, conspiracies, assassins, the themes frequently include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with other or with outside forces. The protagonist of these films is set against a problem, no matter what subgenre a thriller film falls into, it will emphasize the danger that the protagonist faces. While protagonists of thrillers have traditionally been men, women characters are increasingly common

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Drama
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Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning action, which is derived from I do, the two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. They are symbols of the ancient Greek Muses, Thalia, Thalia was the Muse of comedy, while Melpomene was the Muse of tragedy. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the mode has been contrasted with the epic. The use of drama in a narrow sense to designate a specific type of play dates from the modern era. Drama in this sense refers to a play that is neither a comedy nor a tragedy—for example and it is this narrower sense that the film and television industries, along with film studies, adopted to describe drama as a genre within their respective media. Radio drama has been used in both senses—originally transmitted in a performance, it has also been used to describe the more high-brow. The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production, the structure of dramatic texts, unlike other forms of literature, is directly influenced by this collaborative production and collective reception. The early modern tragedy Hamlet by Shakespeare and the classical Athenian tragedy Oedipus Rex by Sophocles are among the masterpieces of the art of drama, a modern example is Long Days Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill. Closet drama describes a form that is intended to be read, in improvisation, the drama does not pre-exist the moment of performance, performers devise a dramatic script spontaneously before an audience. Western drama originates in classical Greece, the theatrical culture of the city-state of Athens produced three genres of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Their origins remain obscure, though by the 5th century BCE they were institutionalised in competitions held as part of celebrating the god Dionysus. The competition for tragedies may have begun as early as 534 BCE, tragic dramatists were required to present a tetralogy of plays, which usually consisted of three tragedies and one satyr play. Comedy was officially recognized with a prize in the competition from 487 to 486 BCE, five comic dramatists competed at the City Dionysia, each offering a single comedy. Ancient Greek comedy is traditionally divided between old comedy, middle comedy and new comedy, following the expansion of the Roman Republic into several Greek territories between 270–240 BCE, Rome encountered Greek drama. While Greek drama continued to be performed throughout the Roman period, from the beginning of the empire, however, interest in full-length drama declined in favour of a broader variety of theatrical entertainments. The first important works of Roman literature were the tragedies and comedies that Livius Andronicus wrote from 240 BCE, five years later, Gnaeus Naevius also began to write drama. No plays from either writer have survived, by the beginning of the 2nd century BCE, drama was firmly established in Rome and a guild of writers had been formed

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Priyanka Chopra
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Priyanka Chopra is an Indian actress, singer, film producer, philanthropist, and the winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant. One of Indias highest-paid and most popular celebrities, Chopra has received awards, including a National Film Award. In 2016, the Government of India honoured her with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award and she played the leading lady in the box-office hits Andaaz and Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, and earned praise for her breakout role in the 2004 thriller Aitraaz. In 2006, Chopra established herself as an actress of Indian cinema with starring roles in the top-grossing productions Krrish. Following a brief setback, she received acclaim for playing a troubled model in the drama Fashion. Chopra subsequently gained wider recognition for portraying a range of characters in the films Kaminey,7 Khoon Maaf, Mary Kom, Dil Dhadakne Do and Bajirao Mastani, all of which garnered her several awards and nominations. In 2015, she began starring as Alex Parrish on the ABC thriller series Quantico, in addition to her acting career, Chopra is noted for her philanthropic work. She has worked with UNICEF for the last ten years and was appointed as the national and global UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Child Rights in 2010 and 2016 respectively. She promotes various causes such as environment, health and education, Chopras off-screen life is the subject of substantial media coverage. As a recording artist, she has released three singles and she is also the founder of the production company Purple Pebble Pictures, which released the acclaimed Marathi comedy-drama Ventilator. Priyanka Chopra was born on 18 July 1982 in Jamshedpur, Bihar, to Ashok and Madhu Chopra and her father was a Punjabi from Ambala. Her mother, from Jharkhand, is the eldest daughter of Ms. Madhu Jyotsna Akhouri, a member of Bihar Legislative Assembly, and Dr. Manohar Kishan Akhouri. Chopra has a brother, Siddharth, who is seven years her junior, due to her parents occupations the family relocated to a number of places in India, including Delhi, Chandigarh, Ambala, Ladakh, Lucknow, Bareilly, and Pune. Among the schools she attended were La Martiniere Girls School in Lucknow, among the many places that she lived, Chopra has fond memories as a child of playing in the valleys of Leh, in the cold northwestern Indian desert region of Jammu and Kashmir. She has said, I think I was in Class 4 when I was in Leh and my dad was in the army and was posted there. I stayed in Leh for a year and my memories of that place are tremendous and we were all army kids there. We werent living in houses, we were in bunkers in the valley and we used to race up to the top of the stupa. She now considers Bareilly her home town, and maintains strong connections there, while in Massachusetts, she participated in several theatre productions and studied Western classical music, choral singing and Kathak dance

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Josh Hopkins
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William Joshua Josh Hopkins is an American actor and amateur musician. Hopkins was born in Lexington, Kentucky and he has participated in many TV series and films. He is the writer and performer of the song Feigning Interest, in 2015, he starred in the ABC thriller Quantico as Liam OConnor. Hopkins was born in Lexington, Kentucky on September 12,1970, Hopkins joined the fourth, and the last season, of New York Undercover in 1998. In 1999 Hopkins starred in Alanis Morissettes Unsent music video, Hopkins portrayed Paul Allen in the 1999 film Pirates of Silicon Valley, and Raymond Milbury on the television series Ally McBeal. He portrayed womanizer Charlie Babcock on the television series Pepper Dennis and he later worked with his former Ally McBeal co-star Calista Flockhart when he had a recurring role on Brothers & Sisters. He also had a regular role as Peter Manning on the cancelled Fox drama Vanished. In 2005, Hopkins guest starred on Foxs hit show Bones as Temperance Brennans former professor and lover, Michael Stires, Hopkins has also guest starred in CSI, Miami. Season 1 of the CBS series Cold Case saw Hopkins play the role of Assistant District Attorney Jason Kite, the show was especially noted for the on-screen chemistry between Hopkins character and the character of Detective Lilly Rush, played by Kathryn Morris. Hopkins starred in the 2008 CBS summer drama Swingtown as Roger Thompson, the series was originally intended for the Fall 2007 season, but was postponed due to the writers strike. It has sparked controversy for its portrayal of 1970s culture, including open marriage. In 2009, Hopkins appeared as Dr. Noah Barnes in season 2 of ABCs Private Practice and he went on to play the character Grayson Ellis on the sitcom Cougar Town, which premiered September 23,2009 on ABC and later moved to TBS. In 2015, Hopkins joined the main cast for Quantico playing the role of Liam OConnor, buddyTV ranked him #73 on its list of TVs Sexiest Men of 2011

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Aunjanue Ellis
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Aunjanue L. Ellis is an American film, stage, and television actress, and producer. She began her career in theater, and made her film debut in Girls Town. She later had leading roles in a number of independent movies, Ellis is best known for her roles in films Men of Honor, The Cavemans Valentine, Undercover Brother, Ray, The Express, The Taking of Pelham 123 and The Help. On television, Ellis had regular role in the ABC police drama series High Incident, in 2015, Ellis played the leading role in the miniseries The Book of Negroes, based on bestselling novel by Lawrence Hill. She received critical acclaim and a Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Actress in a Movie/Miniseries, later that year, she began starring as Miranda Shaw in the ABC thriller series Quantico. In 2016, Ellis played Nancy Turner, Nat Turners mother, in the critically acclaimed drama film. Ellis was born in San Francisco, California, and raised on her grandmothers farm in McComb and she attended Tougaloo College before transferring to Brown University, where she completed her Bachelor of Arts in African-American studies. She also studied acting with Jim Barnhill and John Emigh, during her years in Brown University, Ellis made her debut in a student play. She went on to acting in the Graduate Acting Program at New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, in 1995, Ellis made her professional acting debut appearing as Ariel opposite Patrick Stewarts Prospero in a Broadway revival of William Shakespeares The Tempest. She later made her debut in the episode of Fox police drama series. In 1996 she had the role in the independent film. During the late 1990s, Ellis also had supporting roles in films Eds Next Move, Desert Blue, In Too Deep, from 1996 to 1997, Ellis starred as Officer Leslie Joyner in the ABC police drama series, High Incident, created by Steven Spielberg. The series was canceled two seasons. In 1999, she had the role of Sharon Young on the ABC legal drama. In 2000, Ellis starred opposite Cuba Gooding Jr. in the drama film Men of Honor, directed by George Tillman, also in 2001, Ellis had a supporting part in the critically acclaimed comedy-drama film Lovely & Amazing. In 2002, she had main role alongside Eddie Griffin in the comedy film Undercover Brother. In 2004, she played Mary Ann Fisher in the Academy Awards-nominated biographical film about musician Ray Charles, in 2007, Ellis played the leading role in the thriller Cover

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Russell Tovey
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Russell George Tovey is an English actor with numerous television, film and stage credits. Tovey is best known for playing the role of a werewolf, currently, he stars as Harry Doyle in the drama-thriller series Quantico on the ABC network. Tovey is the younger of two children, born to Carole Haynes and George Tovey who run a Romford-based coach service taking passengers from Essex to Gatwick Airport, Tovey has an older brother, Daniel. He grew up in Billericay, Essex, and he attended Harold Court School in Harold Wood, as a boy, Tovey said he was an avid collector of various things and prone to participating in fads. His parents supported his efforts, taking him to archeological digs and museums, buying him a metal detector, and going to conventions for mineralologists. For a time he wanted to be a teacher, but after seeing Dead Poets Society, The Goonies. For a time during his teens, he worked as a assistant in Billericays Kings Head pub. Tovey began his career as a child actor and he joined a local drama club, and garnered the attention of a talent agent. He began acting when he was 11 years old and he worked so steadily and missed so much school that his father suggested his acting career be cut back, but his mother convinced his father to let their son continue. His TV career started in 1994, when he was cast in Mud and he left high school at the age of 16, and started a BTEC in performing arts at Barking College. He was expelled after a year for refusing a role in the play in favour of a paying acting job. He acted in plays in Chichester under the direction of Debra Gillett and he met Marber through Gillett, and Marber cast him in the play Howard Katz at the National Theatre. He also performed in His Girl Friday and His Dark Materials there and he originally auditioned for the role of Crowther but agreed to act the part of Rudge after Bennett promised to beef up the role. Insecure because he had not attended drama school like many of his peers, he enrolled in numerous workshops, in spring 2007, Tovey had a recurring role in BBC Three comedy Rob Brydons Annually Retentive, playing Robs producer, Ben. He played Midshipman Alonso Frame, in 2007 Doctor Who Christmas Special Voyage of the Damned, Tovey reprised his role as Midshipman Alonso Frame in the 2009-10 Doctor Who Christmas special, The End of Time. Tovey played werewolf George Sands, one of three housemates in the drama Being Human. The pilot premiered on BBC Three on 18 February 2008, a six-part series was commissioned with the first episode broadcast on 25 January 2009. Tovey left the regular cast of the show at the start of the season on 5 February 2012

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Blair Underwood
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Blair Erwin Underwood is an American television, film, and stage actor and director. He played headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins on the NBC legal drama L. A. Law for seven years and he has received two Golden Globe Award nominations, three NAACP Image Awards and one Grammy Award. In recent years, he has appeared as Andrew Garner on Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D, the New Adventures of Old Christine, Dirty Sexy Money and In Treatment and was in NBCs The Event. Underwood was born in Tacoma, Washington, the son of Marilyn Ann Scales, an interior decorator, because of his fathers military career, Underwood lived on bases and Army Posts in the United States and Stuttgart, Germany, during his childhood. Blair attended Petersburg High School in Petersburg, Virginia and he went on to attend the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is an honorary member of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. A. Law, where he appeared from 1987 to 1994, in 1996 he was featured in the July issue of Playgirl. Blair also appeared in the 1987s TV series 21 Jump Street aside a young Johnny Depp on episode Gotta Finish the Riff, underwoods film career began with roles in Just Cause, Set It Off and Deep Impact. He also had a role as a geneticist in Gattaca. In 2000, he played the role in the short-lived television series City of Angels. In 2003, he guest starred in four episodes on the HBO series Sex, in 2004, he played the role of Roger De Souza opposite Heather Locklear in NBCs LAX. He gained acclaim as the grade school teacher in the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus for two years. In 2007, he guest starred in an episode of the NBC series Law & Order and he played the character Alex in the first season of the HBO series In Treatment, for which he was nominated for best supporting actor at the 2009 Golden Globes. Underwood has received three NAACP Image Awards, for his work in Rules of Engagement, and his television work in L. A. Law, City of Angels, Murder in Mississippi. Underwood was voted one of People s 50 Most Beautiful People in 2000, in 2007, Underwood co-authored the novel Casanegra, A Tennyson Hardwick Novel with husband-and-wife team Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due. In 2010–2011, Underwood portrayed United States President Elias Martinez in the NBC drama series The Event, in 2012, he played the lead role of Stanley in the Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. In 2013, Underwood played the role of Robert Ironside in the remake of the successful 1960s television series, the show was cancelled after three episodes. In 2016, Underwood was cast in the ABC thriller series Quantico for the regular role of CIA officer. Underwood is a part of charitable organizations

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Montreal
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Montreal, officially Montréal, is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the 2nd-most populous in Canada as a whole. Originally called Ville-Marie, or City of Mary, it is believed to be named after Mount Royal, the city has a distinct four-season continental climate, with warm-to-hot summers and cold, snowy winters. In 2016, Montreal had a population of 1,704,694, Montreals metropolitan area had a population of 4,098,927 and a population of 1,958,257 in the urban agglomeration, with all of the municipalities on the Island of Montreal included. Legally a French-speaking city,60. 5% of Montrealers speak French at home,21. 2% speak English and 19. 8% speak neither, Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada, with 56% of the population able to speak both official languages. Montreal is the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the world after Paris, historically the commercial capital of Canada, it was surpassed in population and economic strength by Toronto in the 1970s. It remains an important centre of commerce, aerospace, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, education, culture, tourism, gaming, film, Montreal was also named a UNESCO City of Design. In 2009, Montreal was named North Americas leading host city for international events, according to the 2009 preliminary rankings of the International Congress. According to the 2015 Global Liveability Ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit, in the 2017 edition of their Best Student Cities ranking, Quacquarelli Symonds ranked Montreal as the worlds best city to study abroad. Also, Montreal has 11 universities with 170,000 students enrolled, the Greater Montréal region has the highest number of university students per capita among all metropolitan areas in North America. It is the only Canadian city to have held the Summer Olympics, currently, the city hosts the Canadian Grand Prix of Formula One, the Montreal International Jazz Festival and the Just for Laughs festival. In 2012, Montreal was ranked as a Beta+ world city, in Kanien’kéha, or Mohawk language, the island is called Tiohtià, ke Tsi or Ka-wé-no-te. In Anishinaabemowin, or Ojibwe language, the land is called Mooniyaang, though the city was first named by French colonizers Ville Marie, or City of Mary, its current name comes from Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. The most popular theory is that the name derives from Mont Réal, Cartiers 1535 diary entry, naming the mountain, according to the Commission de toponymie du Québec and the Geographical Names Board of Canada, Canadian place names have only one official form. Thus, Montreal is officially spelled with an accent over the e in both English and French. In practice, this is limited to governmental uses. English-speaking Montrealers, including English-language media, regularly omit the accent when writing in English, archaeological evidence demonstrates that First Nations native people occupied the island of Montreal as early as 4,000 years ago. By the year AD1000, they had started to cultivate maize, within a few hundred years, they had built fortified villages. Archeologists have found evidence of their habitation there and at locations in the valley since at least the 14th century

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Sherbrooke
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Sherbrooke is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. Sherbrooke is situated at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region, Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality and census division of Quebec, coextensive with the city of Sherbrooke. With 154,601 residents at the 2011 census, Sherbrooke was the sixth largest city in the province of Quebec, the Sherbrooke Census Metropolitan Area had 201,890 inhabitants, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Quebec and nineteenth largest in Canada. Originally known as Hyatts Mill, it was renamed after Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, a British general who was Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, and Governor General of British North America. Sherbrooke is the economic, political, cultural and institutional centre of Estrie. There are eight institutions educating 40,000 students and employing 11,000 people,3,700 of whom are professors, teachers and researchers, the direct economic impact of these institutions exceeds 1 billion dollars. The proportion of university students is 10.32 students per 100 inhabitants, in proportion to its population, Sherbrooke has the largest concentration of students in Quebec. Since the nineteenth century, Sherbrooke has been a manufacturing centre and this segment of the economy has experienced a considerable transformation in recent decades as a result of the decline of the citys traditional manufacturing sectors. The service sector occupies a prominent place in the economy of the city, the Sherbrooke region is surrounded by mountains, rivers and lakes. There are several ski hills nearby and various tourist attractions in regional flavour, Mont-Bellevue Park, a large park in the city, is used for downhill skiing. The First Nations were the first inhabitants, having settled the region between 8,000 and 3,000 years ago. Traces of seasonal camps, characterized by arrowheads, scrapers, ceramic objects dating from the Woodland period were also found, indicating that the region continued to be occupied by nomadic people during this period. Upon the arrival of Samuel de Champlain in Quebec in 1608, france created an alliance through its missionaries with the Abenaki, located in Maine and Vermont. The French were driven to the valley of the St. Lawrence River near Trois-Rivières after a Mohawk victory in the war of 1660. Seeking to obtain control of the territory, the area around present-day Sherbrooke was a battlefield between the two peoples who had to travel to the region. The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783, ending the war, the Eastern Townships were under Abekani control for a few years, having practised hunting and fishing for centuries. However, the American Revolution attracted loyalists to the region who began to covet the land and obtain government grants. The first European settler to reside in the Sherbrooke region was a French Canadian named Jean-Baptiste Nolain, of whom few details are known, the first attempts at colonization occurred in 1792 on the banks of the St. Francis River

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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange

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ABC Studios
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Touchstone Television Productions, LLC, is the television production unit of ABC Entertainment Group, part of Disney–ABC Television Group. ABC Studios was established as Touchstone Films TV banner in 1984, Touchstone Films banner was used for TV by then new Disney CEO Michael Eisner in the 1984–85 television season with the short lived western, Wildside. Touchstone was a banner of Disney Pictures which included at the television production. The next TV season, Disney Pictures TV production unit produced a hit with The Golden Girls using the Touchstone Films brand, Walt Disney Television and Touchstone Television were grouped together under Garth Ancier as president of network television for Walt Disney Studios on April 18,1989. By March 1998, David Neuman assumed the presidency of Touchstone TV, in March 1998, Touchstone was placed under Buena Vista Television Productions, a newly formed group under chairman Lloyd Braun, along with Walt Disney Network Television. In 2000, Touchstone created two departments with comedy in September, and a department in December. In February 2007, Touchstone Television was renamed ABC Television Studio as part of Disneys push to drop secondary brands like Buena Vista for Disney, ABC, in January 2010, Disney–ABC Television Group announced it was cutting 5% of its workforce. In October 2012, ABC Studios formed its Signature division to sell to outside networks, ABC Signature Studios, Inc. is the boutique production subsidiary of ABC Studios designated to sell to outside buyers for emerging and cable platforms with low cost and off-cycle programming. The division will develop year round, ABC Studios was moving to sell to outside networks. As the studios had placed the former ABC comedy Cougar Town at TBS, Signature developed Mistresses which was included in ABCs summer schedule and was renewed for another season. Signature was incorporated on September 23,2013, in October 2013, the division placed its first outside project, Benched, for USA with a pilot order which finished shooting by December. Other projects were in the works with A&E, WE tv, in the works with ABC, Signature has a possible straight-to-series Stephen King story adaptation, Grand Central based on The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates. Corporate sibling Freeform picked up Rated P For Parenthood for development as its first from Signature in June 2014, mcGs Wonderland Sound & Vision signed a two-year over all production agreement with ABC Signature, Freeform and ABC Studios in October 2015. This follows two productions from McG on Freeform/ABC Family, in April 2016, Freeform greenlit Marvels Cloak & Dagger with a straight-to-series order as Marvel Televisions first co-production with Signature. The series, set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is scheduled to premiere in 2018, another co-production with Marvel Television was greenlit in August 2016, with Marvels Runaways confirmed for the Hulu streaming service

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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate

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1080i
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1080i is an abbreviation referring to a combination of frame resolution and scan type, used in high-definition television and high-definition video. The number 1080 refers to the number of lines on the screen. The term assumes a widescreen ratio of 16,9, so the 1080 lines of vertical resolution implies 1920 columns of horizontal resolution. A1920 pixels ×1080 lines screen has a total of 2.1 megapixels and this format is used in the SMPTE 292M standard. The choice of 1080 lines originates with Charles Poynton, who in the early 1990s pushed for square pixels to be used in HD video formats, within the designation 1080i, the i stands for interlaced scan. A frame of 1080i video consists of two fields of 1920 horizontal and 540 vertical pixels. The first field consists of all odd-numbered TV lines and the second all even numbered lines, 1080i differs from 1080p, where the p stands for progressive scan, where all lines in a frame are captured at the same time. In native or pure 1080i, the two fields of a frame correspond to different instants, so motion portrayal is good and this is true for interlaced video in general and can be easily observed in still images taken of fast motion scenes. However, when 1080p material is captured at 25 or 30 frames/second, it is converted to 1080i at 50 or 60 fields/second, respectively, in this situation both fields in a frame do correspond to the same instant. The field-to-instant relation is more complex for the case of 1080p at 24 frames/second converted to 1080i at 60 fields/second. Both field rates can be carried by digital television broadcast formats such as ATSC, DVB. The frame rate can be implied by the context, while the rate is generally specified after the letter i. In this case 1080i60 refers to 60 fields per second, the European Broadcasting Union prefers to use the resolution and frame rate separated by a slash, as in 1080i/30 and 1080i/25, likewise 480i/30 and 576i/25. Resolutions of 1080i60 or 1080i50 often refers to 1080i/30 or 1080i/25 in EBU notation, 1080i is directly compatible with some CRT HDTVs on which it can be displayed natively in interlaced form, but for display on progressive-scan—e. g. Most new LCD and plasma TVs, it must be deinterlaced, depending on the televisions video processing capabilities, the resulting video quality may vary, but may not necessarily suffer. For example, film material at 25fps may be deinterlaced from 1080i50 to restore a full 1080p resolution at the frame rate without any loss. Preferably video material with 50 or 60 motion phases/second is to be converted to 50p or 60p before display, worldwide, most HD channels on satellite and cable broadcast in 1080i. This also allows local newscasts on these ABC affiliates to be produced in the resolution to match the picture quality of their 1080i competitors

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Federal Bureau of Investigation
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, which simultaneously serves as the nations prime federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the U. S. Department of Justice, Intelligence Community and reports to both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence. A leading U. S. counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal investigative organization, although many of the FBIs functions are unique, its activities in support of national security are comparable to those of the British MI5 and the Russian FSB. At an FBI field office, a senior-level FBI officer concurrently serves as the representative of the Director of National Intelligence. Despite its domestic focus, the FBI also maintains a significant international footprint and these overseas offices exist primarily for the purpose of coordination with foreign security services and do not usually conduct unilateral operations in the host countries. The FBI can and does at times carry out secret activities overseas, just as the CIA has a domestic function. The FBI was established in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation and its name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935. The FBI headquarters is the J. Edgar Hoover Building, located in Washington, in the fiscal year 2012, the Bureaus total budget was approximately $8.12 billion. In 1896, the National Bureau of Criminal Identification was founded, the 1901 assassination of President William McKinley created an urgent perception that America was under threat from anarchists. The Departments of Justice and Labor had been keeping records on anarchists for years, the Justice Department had been tasked with the regulation of interstate commerce since 1887, though it lacked the staff to do so. It had made little effort to relieve its staff shortage until the breakage of the Oregon land fraud scandal at approximately the turn of the 20th Century, President Roosevelt instructed Attorney General Charles Bonaparte to organize an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General. Bonaparte reached out to other agencies, including the Secret Service, for personnel, on May 27,1908, the Congress forbade this use of Treasury employees by the Justice Department, citing fears that the new agency would serve as a secret police department. Again at Roosevelts urging, Bonaparte moved to organize a formal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Investigation was created on July 26,1908, after the Congress had adjourned for the summer. Attorney General Bonaparte, using Department of Justice expense funds, hired thirty-four people, including veterans of the Secret Service. Its first Chief was Stanley Finch, Bonaparte notified the Congress of these actions in December 1908. The bureaus first official task was visiting and making surveys of the houses of prostitution in preparation for enforcing the White Slave Traffic Act, or Mann Act, in 1932, the bureau was renamed the United States Bureau of Investigation. The following year it was linked to the Bureau of Prohibition, in the same year, its name was officially changed from the Division of Investigation to the present-day Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI. J. Edgar Hoover served as Director from 1924 to 1972, a combined 48 years with the BOI, DOI, Hoover was substantially involved in most major cases and projects that the FBI handled during his tenure

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FBI Academy
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The FBI Academy is the Federal Bureau of Investigationss law enforcement training and research center located near the town of Quantico in Stafford County, Virginia. Operated by the Bureaus Training Division, it was first opened for use in 1972 on 385 acres of woodland, the Academy provides several training programs, including Firearms, Hogan’s Alley, Tactical and Emergency Vehicle Operations Center, Survival Skills, and Law Enforcement Executive Development. The academy occupies 547 acres within Marine Corps Base Quantico, FSB Academy, Russia Quantico, TV series New Agent Training—FBI The FBI Academy Documentary produced by WETA-TV

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Grand Central Terminal
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Grand Central Terminal is a commuter, rapid transit railroad terminal at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States. Its platforms, all ground, serve 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower, though the total number of tracks along platforms. The terminal serves commuters traveling on the Metro-North Railroad to Westchester, Putnam, until 1991, the terminal served Amtrak, which moved to nearby Pennsylvania Station upon completion of the Empire Connection. The East Side Access project is underway to bring Long Island Rail Road service to the terminal, Grand Central Terminal has intricate designs both on its inside and outside. In addition, it contains a vast interior main concourse, the terminal is one of the worlds most visited tourist attractions, with 21.9 million visitors in 2013. Unlike other Metro-North stations, Grand Central Terminal is not owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Grand Central Station is the name of the nearby U. S. Post Office station at 450 Lexington Avenue, but may refer to the Grand Central – 42nd Street subway station that is located next to the terminal. The tracks are numbered according to their location in the terminal building, the upper-level tracks are numbered 11 to 42 east to west. Tracks 22 and 31 were removed in the late 1990s to build concourses for Grand Central North, Track 12 was removed to expand the platform between tracks 11 and 13 and track 14 is only used for loading a garbage train. The lower level has 27 tracks, numbered 100 to 126, east to west, currently, only tracks 102–112, odd-numbered tracks are usually on the east side of the platform, even-numbered tracks on the west. Grand Central Terminal has both monumental spaces and meticulously crafted detail, especially on its facade, in a February 2013 BBC News article, historian David Cannadine described it as one of the most majestic buildings of the twentieth century. In 2013, Grand Central Terminal hosted 21.6 million visitors, among them are chain stores, including a Starbucks coffee shop, a Rite Aid pharmacy and, as of December 2011, an Apple Store. Other chain restaurants include a Shake Shack, Grand Central Terminals 49-acre basements are among the largest in the city. This includes M42, a secret sub-basement under the terminal that contains the AC to DC converters used to supply DC traction current to the tracks. The exact location of M42 is a guarded secret and does not appear on maps, though it has been shown on the History Channel program Cities of the Underworld. Two of the rotary converters were not removed in the late 20th century when solid-state ones took over their job. During World War II, this facility was closely guarded because its sabotage would have impaired troop movement on the Eastern Seaboard. It is said that any unauthorized person entering the facility during the war risked being shot on sight, abwehr sent two spies to sabotage it, they were arrested by the FBI before they could strike

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Quantico, Virginia
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Quantico is a town in Prince William County, Virginia, United States. The population was 480 at the 2010 census, Quantico is bordered by the U. S. military installation of Marine Corps Base Quantico on three sides and the Potomac River on the fourth. Quantico is located south of the mouth of Quantico Creek on the Potomac, the word Quantico is a derivation of the name of a Doeg village recorded by English colonists as Pamacocack. Quantico is the site of one of the largest U. S. Marine Corps bases, the base is the site of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command and HMX-1, Officer Candidate School, and The Basic School. A replica of the USMC War Memorial stands in the entrance to the base, as of 2013, the mayor is Kevin P. Brown. Quantico is at 38°3119 North, 77°1723 West, according to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.1 square miles, of which,0.1 square miles of it is land and none of the area is covered with water. Quantico has a subtropical climate. As of the census of 2000, there were 561 people,295 households, the population density was 7,811.2 inhabitants per square mile. There were 359 housing units at a density of 4,998.6 per square mile. The racial makeup was 61. 32% White,20. 32% African American,10. 16% Asian,0. 36% Native American,2. 32% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 5. 53% of the population. 53. 2% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 1.90 and the average family size was 3.02. In the town the population was out with 20. 9% under the age of 18,11. 6% from 18 to 24,39. 8% from 25 to 44,19. 4% from 45 to 64. The median age was 35 years, for every 100 females there were 122.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 130.1 males, the median income for a household in the town was $26,250, and the median income for a family was $27,596. Males had an income of $29,615 versus $23,125 for females. The per capita income for the town was $19,087, about 22. 4% of families and 21. 4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 39. 4% of those under the age of 18 and none of those ages 65 or older. Criminal Minds is based out of Quantico, the CBS drama CSI, Cyber is also set in Quantico. A new thriller series, Quantico, set at the FBI Academy premiered in 2015 on the ABC network, lee Childs character Major Jack Reacher makes numerous references to Quantico, especially in the novel The Visitor

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Downtown Montreal
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Downtown Montreal is the central business district of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Located in the borough of Ville-Marie, the district is situated on the southernmost slope of Mount Royal. According to the strictest definition, it is bounded by Sherbrooke Street to the north, Saint Hubert Street to the east, Guy Street to the west, and Notre-Dame Street to the south. Wider definitions may extend to Atwater Street to the west, Papineau Avenue to the east, the two tallest of these are the 1000 de La Gauchetière and 1250 René-Lévesque, both of which were built in 1992. The Tour de la Bourse is also a significant high-rise and is home to the Montreal Exchange that trades in derivatives, the Montreal Exchange was originally a stock exchange and was the first in Canada. In 1999, all trades were transferred to Toronto in exchange for an exclusivity in the derivative trading market. The central axis for downtown is Saint Catherine Street, Canadas busiest commercial avenue, the area includes high end retail such as the Holt Renfrew and Ogilvy department stores as well as Les Cours Mont-Royal shopping centre. Other major streets include Sherbrooke Street, Peel, de la Montagne, de Maisonneuve, the skyline may be observed from one of two lookouts on Mount Royal. The lookout at the Belvedere takes in downtown, the river, on clear days the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York are visible, as are the Green Mountains of Vermont. The eastern lookout has a view of The Plateau neighbourhood, Olympic Stadium, Downtown Montreal is also home to the main campuses of McGill University and UQAM and the Sir George Williams campus of Concordia University. The Bell Centre, used for ice hockey and other events, percival Molson Memorial Stadium lies just to the North of Pine Avenue at the edge of Downtown Montreal. Pointe-à-Callière Museum is more strictly in Old Montreal, two railway stations are in Downtown Montreal, Central Station serves both intercity and commuter services. Additional commuter services use Lucien-LAllier Station, Downtown Montreal also contains two bus stations, Gare dautocars de Montréal serves mainly longer distance services, while Terminus Centre-Ville is mainly a terminus for services operated by RTL. Two lines of the Montreal Metro run east–west through Downtown Montreal, Line 1 is aligned with De Maisonneuve Boulevard, serving, Atwater, Guy-Concordia, Peel, McGill, Place-des-Arts, Saint-Laurent, Berri-UQAM and Beaudry stations. Line 2 runs some blocks south of the Green Line, serving Lucien-LAllier, Bonaventure, Square-Victoria-OACI, Place-dArmes, Champ-de-Mars, Berri-UQAM, Place-dArmes and Champ-de-Mars stations would usually be considered as in Old Montreal. Berri-UQAM is also the terminus for Line 4, air Canada was formerly headquartered in Downtown Montreal. In 1990, the announced that it was moving its headquarters from Downtown Montreal to Montreal-Trudeau Airport to cut costs. Underground City, Montreal Old Montreal Old Port of Montreal Downtown Montreal travel guide from Wikivoyage

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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year

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People's Choice Awards
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The Peoples Choice Awards is an American awards show, recognizing the people and the work of popular culture, voted on by the general public. The show has been held annually since 1975, the Peoples Choice Awards is broadcast on CBS and is produced by Procter & Gamble and Mark Burnett. In Canada, it is shown on Global, the award shows creator was Bob Stivers, who produced the first show in 1975. The first awards recognized The Sting as Favorite Picture of 1974, Barbra Streisand as the years Favorite Film Actress, ratings for the annual event peaked in 1977, when the third Peoples Choice Awards attracted 35. Procter & Gamble, the only sponsor, bought the show from Stivers in 1982. Apart from the local advertising and network promotional time, all advertising during the awards show is solely by P&G brands. The award categories have varied over the years, for example, the 16th Peoples Choice Awards had categories including Favorite All-Around Movie, and both a Favorite Movie Actor and a World Favorite Movie Actor. At the 23rd Peoples Choice Awards, Rob Reiner was named the Peoples Choice Awards Honoree, in 2008, the Peoples Choice Awards introduced a new category, Favorite Sci-Fi Show. The nominees were Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, Stargate Atlantis was the first recipient of the award. In the 20th century, the awards were based on results from Gallup polls, each year, Gallup took a survey of different categories for favorite actor, actress, movie, artist, television program or group. The scope was unlimited—the public could choose whomever or whatever it liked, the results of the annual survey were announced in the form of the Peoples Choice Awards. Since polls have margins of error, many awards have had ties in at least one category. For instance, in 2003, both Spider-Man and The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring were recognized as Favorite Motion Picture, the winners of the 31st Peoples Choice Awards were decided by online voting rather than Gallup polls. The nominees submitted for Internet voting were selected using a process involving editors at Entertainment Weekly, the shows production team. After being presented with a list of candidates determined by national ratings averages, box office grosses and album sales, the nominees for the 2010 Peoples Choice Awards were determined by the media research company Visible Measures, which specializes in measuring Internet video audience behavior. To measure True Reach, Visible Measures deploys a robust and patented set of technologies with the goal of capturing the universe of Internet video viewership data in near real-time, the first ceremony in 1975 had 14 categories. From Entertainment Weekly A 35th Anniversary article from The Hollywood Reporter

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Central Intelligence Agency
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As one of the principal members of the U. S. Intelligence Community, the CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence and is focused on providing intelligence for the President. Though it is not the only U. S. government agency specializing in HUMINT and it exerts foreign political influence through its tactical divisions, such as the Special Activities Division. Despite transferring some of its powers to the DNI, the CIA has grown in size as a result of the September 11 attacks. In 2013, The Washington Post reported that in fiscal year 2010, the CIA has increasingly expanded its roles, including covert paramilitary operations. One of its largest divisions, the Information Operations Center, has shifted focus from counter-terrorism to offensive cyber-operations, when the CIA was created, its purpose was to create a clearinghouse for foreign policy intelligence and analysis. Today its primary purpose is to collect, analyze, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence, warning/informing American leaders of important overseas events, with Pakistan described as an intractable target. Counterintelligence, with China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, the Executive Office also supports the U. S. military by providing it with information it gathers, receiving information from military intelligence organizations, and cooperates on field activities. The Executive Director is in charge of the day to day operation of the CIA, each branch of the military service has its own Director. The Directorate has four regional groups, six groups for transnational issues. There is a dedicated to Iraq, regional analytical offices covering the Near East and South Asia, Russia and Europe, and the Asian Pacific, Latin American. The Directorate of Operations is responsible for collecting intelligence. The name reflects its role as the coordinator of intelligence activities between other elements of the wider U. S. intelligence community with their own HUMINT operations. This Directorate was created in an attempt to end years of rivalry over influence, philosophy, in spite of this, the Department of Defense recently organized its own global clandestine intelligence service, the Defense Clandestine Service, under the Defense Intelligence Agency. This Directorate is known to be organized by regions and issues. The Directorate of Science & Technology was established to research, create, many of its innovations were transferred to other intelligence organizations, or, as they became more overt, to the military services. For example, the development of the U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft was done in cooperation with the United States Air Force, the U-2s original mission was clandestine imagery intelligence over denied areas such as the Soviet Union. It was subsequently provided with signals intelligence and measurement and signature intelligence capabilities, subsequently, NPIC was transferred to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

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Secret Intelligence Service
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The Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6, is the foreign intelligence agency of the British government. The SIS Chief is held accountable to the Foreign Secretary, SIS is bound by the Intelligence Services Act 1994. The name MI6 was used as a flag of convenience during the First World War when it was known by many names, the existence of the SIS was not officially acknowledged until 1994. It forms a part of the UKs intelligence machinery alongside GCHQ, MI5, in late 2010, the head of SIS delivered what he said was the first public address by a serving chief of the agency in its then 101-year history. The remarks of Sir John Sawers primarily focused on the relationship between the need for secrecy and the goal of maintaining security within the UK and his remarks acknowledged the tensions caused by secrecy in an era of leaks and pressure for ever-greater disclosure. Since 1995, the SIS headquarters have been at Vauxhall Cross on the South Bank of the River Thames, the service derived from the Secret Service Bureau, which was founded in 1909. The bureau was split into naval and army sections which, over time, specialised in foreign espionage and internal counter-espionage activities and this specialisation was because the Admiralty wanted to know the maritime strength of the Imperial German Navy. This specialisation was formalised before 1914 and its first director was Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming, who often dropped the Smith in routine communication. He typically signed correspondence with his initial C in green ink and this usage evolved as a code name, and has been adhered to by all subsequent directors of SIS when signing documents to retain anonymity. The services performance during the First World War was mixed, because it was unable to establish a network in Germany itself, most of its results came from military and commercial intelligence collected through networks in neutral countries, occupied territories, and Russia. After the war, resources were reduced but during the 1920s. In August 1919, Cumming created the new passport control department, the post of Passport Control Officer provided operatives with diplomatic immunity. Circulating Sections established intelligence requirements and passed the intelligence back to its consumer departments, mainly the War Office, the debate over the future structure of British Intelligence continued at length after the end of hostilities but Cumming managed to engineer the return of the Service to Foreign Office control. In the immediate post-war years under Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming and throughout most of the 1920s, SIS was focused on Communism, in particular, Russian Bolshevism. Smith-Cumming died suddenly at his home on 14 June 1923, shortly before he was due to retire, an economic intelligence section, Section VII, to deal with trade, industrial and contraband. A clandestine radio communications organisation, Section VIII, to communicate with operatives, Section N to exploit the contents of foreign diplomatic bags Section D to conduct political covert actions and paramilitary operations in time of war. Section D would organise the Home Defence Scheme resistance organisation in the UK, with the emergence of Germany as a threat following the ascendence of the Nazis, in the early 1930s attention was shifted in that direction. Sinclair died in 1939, after an illness, and was replaced as C by Lt Col. Stewart Menzies, the extensive double-cross system run by MI5 to feed misleading intelligence to the Germans Imagery intelligence activities conducted by the RAF Photographic Reconnaissance Unit

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Gossip Girl
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Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, originally ran on The CW for six seasons from September 19,2007, to December 17,2012. Narrated by the omniscient blogger Gossip Girl, voiced by Kristen Bell, the series begins with the return of Upper East Side teenage it girl Serena van der Woodsen from a mysterious absence. Gossip Girl reveals that Serena has been away at boarding school in Cornwall, Connecticut, Blair Waldorf, whom creators describe as being the queen at the center of their chess game, is the queen bee of Constance Saint Jude prep schools social scene. She also happens to be the childhood best friend and occasional rival of Serena van der Woodsen, other characters of the turbulent Manhattan scene, Vanessa Abrams, Dans childhood best friend. He is Dan and Jennys father and primary guardian, dorota is Blairs primary housekeeper since her youth. Bart Bass is a rude and wealthy man on the upper east side. The success of Gossip Girl led to adaptations outside the United States, the show has received numerous award nominations, winning 18 Teen Choice Awards. The CW officially renewed Gossip Girl for a sixth and final season on May 11,2012, the final season, consisting of 10 episodes, premiered on October 8,2012, and ended on December 17,2012. The Gossip Girl book series was supposed to be adapted into a film starring Lindsay Lohan with head Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. When the film project did not get off the ground, Stephanie Savage, as of October 2006, Schwartz was working on the pilot. He said, I was very skeptical, I dont want to do The O. C. But I thought the books were smart, the characters are worldly in a way that Orange County kids arent. The characteristics for each character in the pilot were based on the first Gossip Girl book, in January 2007, the show was given the green light by The CW. Joshua Safran, who started as a producer before becoming co-executive producer, was later added as an executive producer. On April 24,2012, it was announced that he would leave the show at the end of the season to be the new showrunner of NBCs now-cancelled musical series Smash. To fill in Safrans void, co-executive producer Sara Goodman was promoted to producer for the sixth season. Alexandra Patsavas who worked with Schwartz on The O. C. was in charge of the music, Eric Daman was at the head of the costume department, he previously had assisted Patricia Field on Sex and the City

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Smash (TV series)
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Smash is an American musical drama television series created by playwright Theresa Rebeck and developed by Robert Greenblatt for NBC. Steven Spielberg served as one of the executive producers, the series was broadcast in the US by NBC and produced by DreamWorks Television and Universal Television. The series revolves around a fictional New York City theater community and it features a large ensemble cast, led by Debra Messing, Jack Davenport, Katharine McPhee, Christian Borle, Megan Hilty, and Anjelica Huston. The show debuted on February 6,2012, and its first season ended on May 14,2012 and its second season premiered on February 5,2013, and ended on May 26,2013. NBC announced a change in their lineup in March 2013 and moved the show to Saturdays starting April 6,2013, the series was officially cancelled on May 10,2013. Second-season executive producer-show runner Josh Safran said the episode of season two worked as a series finale. The series, particularly the episode, enjoyed some critical success. The first season received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography among four nominations, the series was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media. The show revolves around a group of characters creating new Broadway musicals, the series features original music by composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. Julia Houston and Tom Levitt, a Broadway writing team come up with the idea of a new musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe titled Bombshell. Producer Eileen Rand, in the midst of divorce proceedings from her husband, jumps on board and brings with her Derek Wills. Ivy Lynn is initially cast as Marilyn, but is forced to deal with competition from the talented, Julias former lover Michael Swift is initially cast in the role of Joe DiMaggio. However, when Julia and Michaels reunion causes serious trouble in her marriage to Frank, the role of Marilyn is recast with film star Rebecca Duvall, leaving Ivy devastated. After a somewhat disastrous out-of-town opening in Boston, Rebecca has fallen due to a peanut allergy. Derek subsequently casts Karen in the role of Marilyn and Michael is reinstated as Joe, Karen discovers Ivy has slept with her fiancé Dev, while Eileen finds out that her assistant Ellis was the one who poisoned Rebecca and fires him. Karen gets through her debut and the ends with the closing number being applauded by the audience. As Bombshell works to open on Broadway in New York City, meanwhile, the cast and crew attempt to find work. Karen meets two aspiring friends and partners and tries to get their work noticed, especially by Derek, Derek works with Broadway star Veronica Moore, who becomes friends with Karen

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New York City Police Department
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The New York City Police Department, officially the City of New York Police Department, is the largest municipal police force in the United States. Established in 1845, the agency has primary responsibilities in law enforcement, the NYPD is one of the oldest police departments established in the U. S. tracing its roots back to the nineteenth century. According to the department, its mission is to enforce the laws, preserve the peace, reduce fear, the departments regulations are compiled in title 38 of the New York City Rules. In June 2004, there were about 40,000 sworn officers plus several thousand employees, in June 2005. As of December 2011, that figure increased slightly to over 36,600, the NYPDs current authorized uniformed strength is 34,450. The Patrolmens Benevolent Association of the City of New York, the largest municipal police union in the United States, represents over 50,000 active, the NYPD Intelligence Division & Counter-Terrorism Bureau has officers stationed in 11 cities internationally. In the 1990s the department developed a CompStat system of management which has also since established in other cities. The NYPD is headquartered at 1 Police Plaza, located on Park Row in Lower Manhattan across the street from City Hall, the NYPD has extensive crime scene investigation and laboratory resources, as well as units which assist with computer crime investigations. The NYPD runs a Real Time Crime Center, essentially a search engine. A Domain Awareness System, a joint project of Microsoft and the NYPD, links 6,000 closed-circuit television cameras, license plate readers, members of the NYPD are frequently referred to by politicians, some media and their own police cars by the nickname New Yorks Finest. The Municipal Police were established in 1845, replacing an old night watch system, in 1857, it was tumultuously replaced by a Metropolitan force, which consolidated many other local police departments in 1898. Twentieth-century trends included professionalization and struggles against corruption, Officers begin service with the rank of Probationary Police Officer, also referred to as Recruit Officer. After successful completion of six months of Police Academy training and various academic, physical, There are three career tracks in the NYPD, supervisory, investigative, and specialist. The supervisory track consists of 12 sworn titles, referred to as ranks, promotion to the ranks of sergeant, lieutenant, and captain are made via competitive civil service examinations. Promotion from the rank of police officer to detective is determined by the current police labor contract, the entry level appointment to detective is third grade or specialist. The commissioner may grant discretionary grades of first or second and these grades offer compensation roughly equivalent to that of supervisors. Specifically, a second grade detectives pay roughly corresponds to a sergeants, Detectives are police officers who have been given a more investigatory position but no official supervisory authority. A Detective First Grade still falls under the command of a sergeant or above, just like detectives, sergeants and lieutenants can receive pay grade increases within their respective ranks

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September 11 attacks
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The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11,2001. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, two of the planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. A third plane, American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia and it was the deadliest incident for firefighters and law enforcement officers in the history of the United States, with 343 and 72 killed respectively. Suspicion for the attack fell on al-Qaeda. The United States responded to the attacks by launching the War on Terror and invading Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, many countries strengthened their anti-terrorism legislation and expanded the powers of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to prevent terrorist attacks. Although al-Qaedas leader, Osama bin Laden, initially denied any involvement, al-Qaeda and bin Laden cited U. S. support of Israel, the presence of U. S. troops in Saudi Arabia, and sanctions against Iraq as motives. Having evaded capture for almost a decade, bin Laden was located and killed by SEAL Team Six of the U. S. Navy in May 2011. S. many closings, evacuations, and cancellations followed, out of respect or fear of further attacks. Cleanup of the World Trade Center site was completed in May 2002, on November 18,2006, construction of One World Trade Center began at the World Trade Center site. The building was opened on November 3,2014. The origins of al-Qaeda can be traced to 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden traveled to Afghanistan and helped organize Arab mujahideen to resist the Soviets. Under the guidance of Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden became more radical, in 1996, bin Laden issued his first fatwā, calling for American soldiers to leave Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden used Islamic texts to exhort Muslims to attack Americans until the stated grievances are reversed, Muslim legal scholars have throughout Islamic history unanimously agreed that the jihad is an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries, according to bin Laden. Bin Laden, who orchestrated the attacks, initially denied but later admitted involvement, in November 2001, U. S. forces recovered a videotape from a destroyed house in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. In the video, bin Laden is seen talking to Khaled al-Harbi, on December 27,2001, a second bin Laden video was released. In the video, he said, It has become clear that the West in general and it is the hatred of crusaders. Terrorism against America deserves to be praised because it was a response to injustice, aimed at forcing America to stop its support for Israel, the transcript refers several times to the United States specifically targeting Muslims. He said that the attacks were carried out because, we are free, and want to regain freedom for our nation. As you undermine our security we undermine yours, Bin Laden said he had personally directed his followers to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon

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Die Hard
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Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Steven E. de Souza and Jeb Stuart. It is based on Roderick Thorps 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever, the sequel to 1966s The Detective, Fox was therefore contractually obligated to offer Sinatra the lead role in Die Hard, but he turned it down. Made for $28 million, Die Hard grossed over $140 million theatrically worldwide, the film turned Willis into an action star, became a metonym for an action film in which a lone hero fights overwhelming odds, and has been named one of the best action movies ever made. The film also ranks #29 on Empire magazines 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time, the films success spawned the Die Hard franchise, which includes four sequels, video games, and a comic book. NYPD Detective John McClane travels to Los Angeles to join his estranged wife Holly at a Christmas Eve party held by her employer and he is taken to Nakatomi Towers by an arranged limousine driven by Argyle, who then waits in the underground lot. McClane is introduced by Holly to her coworkers, and dismayed to learn she has taken her maiden surname, as he freshens up from travel, a group of armed men, led by the German terrorist Hans Gruber, secure the building and seize the partygoers as hostages. McClane escapes into the air vents and quietly follows Gruber as he isolates Nakatomi executive Joseph Takagi from the others, Gruber reveals the situation is just a ploy to steal the $650 million in bearer bonds stored in the Nakatomi vault. Gruber kills Takagi when he refuses to give the vault codes, Grubers men discover McClanes presence, and pursue him. McClane kills several of them, acquiring their weapons, a radio, aware that Gruber can listen in on the radio, McClane contacts the LAPD. Gruber calls the LAPD to dismiss McClanes warning as a false alarm, Powell sees nothing amiss, but as he leaves, McClane drops a corpse onto his car, and Grubers men fire upon it. The building is surrounded by LAPD. McClane uses the alias Roy Rogers to communicate with the LAPD, while Powell discerns McClane is an officer, against McClanes warnings, a SWAT armored car is brought to breach the building, but Grubers men fire on it with anti-tank weapons. McClane uses the C-4 dropped down a shaft to destroy the floor. McClane keeps in communication with Powell, learning the officer took desk duty after accidentally shooting a child years earlier, meanwhile, Hollys coworker Harry Ellis attempts to mediate with Gruber, but instead Gruber assassinates him over the radio when McClane refuses to surrender. McClane encounters Gruber while he is checking the explosives on the roof, Gruber passes himself as an escaped hostage, one of Grubers men arrives and fires upon McClane, forcing him to drop the bag of detonators to escape. Outside, the FBI have arrived and taken control, Gruber gives off a list of demands including a helicopter to escort the hostages. The FBI follow procedure and sever power to the building, this was part of Grubers plan, as the media pick up on the situation, investigative reporter Richard Thornburg learns of Holly and goes to her home to interview her children. The interview gives away McClanes identity and relationship to Holly, Gruber orders the hostages to the roof as the helicopter nears while he personally grabs Holly

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Grey's Anatomy
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Greys Anatomy is an American medical drama television series that premiered on American Broadcasting Company as a mid-season replacement on March 27,2005. The series focuses on the lives of surgical interns, residents and attending physicians, as they evolve into seasoned doctors while trying to maintain personal lives. The title is a play on Grays Anatomy, a human anatomy textbook by Henry Gray. The shows premise originated with Shonda Rhimes, who serves as a producer, along with Betsy Beers, Mark Gordon, Krista Vernoff, Rob Corn, Mark Wilding. Although it is set in Seattle at the fictional Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital it is filmed in Los Angeles. The show was originally titled Complications, a reference to the complicated medical procedures, the series was created to be racially diverse, utilizing a color-blind casting technique. It revolves around the title character Dr. Meredith Grey played by Ellen Pompeo. The original cast consisted of nine star-billed actors, Pompeo, Sandra Oh, Katherine Heigl, Justin Chambers, T. R. Knight, Chandra Wilson, James Pickens Jr. Isaiah Washington and Patrick Dempsey. The cast has undergone changes through the shows run, with many members leaving and being replaced by others. In its twelfth season, the show had an ensemble of sixteen actors. On February 10,2017, ABC renewed Greys Anatomy for a fourteenth season,3 drama on all of broadcast. Greys Anatomy has been received by critics throughout much of its run. Since its inception, the show has been described by the media outlets as a television phenomena or a juggernaut, owing to its longevity and dominant ratings. It is considered to have had a significant impact on culture and has received numerous awards. It has received multiple Emmy nominations, including two for Outstanding Drama Series, in 2012, Greys Anatomy was named the fifth-highest revenue earning show, in terms of advertising per half-hour. It is the longest running scripted primetime show airing on ABC. The series follows Meredith Grey, the daughter of a general surgeon named Ellis Grey. The residents are joined by Jackson Avery and April Kepner, former Mercy-West residents who join Seattle Grace following an administrative merger in the sixth season

The 113 stars on the CIA Memorial Wall in the original CIA headquarters, each representing a CIA officer killed in action

Suspended from the ceiling of the glass enclosed atrium: three models of the U-2, Lockheed A-12, and D-21drone. These models are exact replicas at one-sixth scale of the real planes. All three had photographic capabilities. The U-2 was one of the first espionage planes developed by the CIA. The A-12 set unheralded flight records. The D-21 drone was one of the first unmanned aircraft ever built. Lockheed Martin Corporation donated all three models to the CIA.